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Today we’re talking about Joe’s new app, Fin, and the challenges he faced as a fairly new developer. Joe shares his experience implementing VoiceOver for the first time, as well as some of the difficulties he had to overcome in making the gesture-based interface of Fin work well with VoiceOver gestures. We discuss the importance of getting early feedback on a new app and how that feedback can provide the motivation to do what you knew you should be doing all along, then we talk about the deceptive complexity of polishing a “simple” app until it’s shippable, and the challenges of marketing a new app.
Show Notes & Links
- Fin Timer – Joe’s new timer app for performers
- UICatalog Sample Code – Apple’s UICatalog sample code that illustrates how to use the different controls in UIKit, and how to make them accessible to VoiceOver users
- Release Notes #13: Accessibility – In which Charles suggests that it’s easiest to integrate VoiceOver as you go, rather than adding it into a project at the end
Sponsor
This episode is sponsored by CocoaConf and their Fall tour of conferences for iOS and Mac developers. CocoaConf’s fall tour is a big one, and there’s still one date left in Atlanta, GA (Nov 15-16). Register now and use the discount code ReleaseNotes to receive 20% off the cost of your ticket.